The article below was written in response to Cliff Kincaid’s article posted here: http://www.usasurvival.org/ck02.22.11-2.html. Kincaid’s article appeared not long after the CIA/MI6 backed color revolution people power coup was first instigated against Libya.
Conspicuously absent from Cliff Kincaid’s so-called America’s Survival web page, is any mention of Obama’s air attack on Libya or, his assassination of someone in Pakistan who supposedly was the terrorist Osama bin Ladin. Of course Kincaid can’t portray Obama as the war mongering Wall Street puppet that he obviously is, because Kincaid would then have to admit, that Obama’s policies are quite a bit like his own. Instead Kincaid continues to propound the myth that Obama is some kind of a progressive and I guess if Kincaid didn’t report it on his page, he can pretend it didn’t happen.
Around the time of the so-called popular uprising in Libya and Obama’s support for the alleged forces of democracy, Kincaid wrote an article entitled, “NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Regurgitates Gaddafi Lies and Smears Ronald Reagan.” In the article he criticizes various U.S. news media outlets for revisiting President Reagan’s bombing of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s home. Gaddafi was not injured but his adopted baby daughter was killed.
Kincaid claims that the baby killed in Gaddafi’s own tent was not his daughter, and that Gaddafi adopted the child after she was killed. So, Kincaid wants us to believe this child just happened to be in Gaddafi’s tent when Reagan violated international law and bombed Libya killing her? Kincaid gives us no explanation as to what this child was doing in Gaddafi’s tent. More on this latter.
Kincaid takes particular exception to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s review of the 1986 bombing raid. Kincaid writes: “Mitchell showed Reagan justifying the attack on Libya by saying, “If necessary we will do it again.” Now didn’t we just read a quote from “The Great Communicator” admitting he would commit the same crime of killing an innocent child, again? What’s Kincaid missing here?
Kincaid goes on to describe how the “major media” (for Kincaid this means the “liberal media”) failed to reach clarity on the number of Gaddafi’s children. He claims that Gaddafi never adopted a baby girl and quibbles about how Time magazine claimed this mythical daughter was 18-months, the New York Times reported she was 15 months and the Washington Post claimed she was a year old. To Kincaid this matter of a few months is a revelation of some great blunder by the press. Similarly Kincaid carries on about media reports that cannot confirm a death toll in the air attack. According to Kincaid various agencies reported between 35 and 60 people murdered in Reagan’s raid. Kincaid acts as though the discrepancy was in the millions. This type of nitpicking is astonishing coming from Kincaid who condemns Gaddafi’s brutality and secrecy in one breath, and in another expects the press to report on the exact number of air raid casualties and the age of a dead infant.
Kincaid Knows
After bashing the mass media including Andrea Mitchell the wife of Ronald Reagan nominated Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, Kincaid then goes on to report that he knows exactly who the baby girl was and what happened to her. And how may we ask does he know these things? Get ready for a shock. A reporter told him!
That’s right. In a complete turn around, Kincaid claims that a member of the mass media knows exactly what happened. A reporter from USA Today named Barbara Slavin told Kincaid she was in Libya at the time, saw the dead baby and claims the dictator adopted the child posthumously. Isn’t it interesting how Kincaid trusts this reporter but no other?
Who is Barbara Slavin?
Ms. Slavin was Assistant Managing Editor for World and National Security of The Washington Times from 2008 to 2009. The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper founded in 1982 by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the bizarre Unification Church cult. The newspaper is known for its extremely reactionary and even racist views. Slavin is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council describes itself as a nonpartisan institution with members "from the moderate internationalist wings of both parties." Out of this same Council of internationalists have come a whole slew of Obama team players, including James L. Jones, Susan Rice, Richard Holbrooke, General Eric K. Shinseki and Anne-Marie Slaughter.
So, Cliff Kincaid this great critic of the United Nations, bolshevism and internationalism takes the word of an internationalist who worked for a Moonie cult newspaper and hobnobbed with some of Obama’s key operatives? Is there no doubt that based on Kincaid’s history that he thinks that most of, if not all of, these former Council members and present Obama operatives are communists? With this history, how could Kincaid take Slavin’s word?
What’s up with Cliff?
What’s up is that Kincaid could care less about what the truth is in this incident or any other. Slavin’s story suits Cliff’s agenda and that’s all that’s important. Kincaid has no concern for the people of the Middle East or whether or not they are free or under a brutal dictator like Gaddafi or Hosni Mubarak. Not once in this article does Kincaid express even the least bit of compassion for an innocent child whether Gaddafi adopted her or not. Kincaid feels the same compassion for that Libyan baby that he feels for any man, woman or child presently in Anglo-American gun sites. He feels none.
Kincaid only feels compassion for the international financial elite. And why not, these are the people who fund his activities. Kincaid was once active in the organization Accuracy in Media. Accuracy in Media was partially funded by wealthy investment banker Shelby Cullom Davis and newspaper publisher and billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. Kincaid is bought and paid for by billionaires, just as most of the so-called Tea Party is bought and paid for by the billionaire Koch Brothers.
